It includes everything you need, python, plugins, emerald, ccsm and lxpanel.

You need to get the attached "compiz-helper" pet to

1) test your system is capable

2) setup ~/.xinitrc with some vars and calls to compiz/emerald/lxpanel

3) adjust /etc/profile

Your xorg.conf *should* be just fine.. don't touch it

NOTES:
Please run the attachment! It probes your system for vital tid bits. Needless to say you need your accelerated video driver, works with Mesa on Intel and old Radeon, with nvidia driver on Nvidias and fglrx on new Radeons, i don't have a clue about obscure cards, but if you get a decent glxgears number and the test is passed then you are good.
In the xinitrc an attempt is made to see if you use Hardware or Software acceleration and appropriate variables set.

There is no extra wm included (emerald takes care of it) and there is a panel in the shape of lxpanel, bare bones. You can use xfce4 or trinity-KDE and if you're game KDE4. (More on these options later).

You invoke it from console (outside of X) with xwin dummy

I made it an sfs coz it's big! And it wont make a mess if you decide to toss it out.

It is tested working on my main fast system with nvidia and fglrx, my crappy eee-701-SD (NO bull!) and my r51 thinkpad with old radeon-mobility 32M graphics. that's 4! Hmm.. I wonder how the olpc-XO-1.5 will go?

Known issues:
-there is a little square in the top left corner, it's a window of rxvt, it's the "dummy" wm
-X doesn't close cleanly on some systems, you may need to hard poweroff, but I haven't had to yet, acpid usually cuts in.
-DO NOT use this on servers or where uptime is critical, says that too on the compiz site

Many thanks to dinky (creator of Ripple) for the rxvt idea, the crunch bang guys for ideas to run W/O a wm, the compiz guys, Forlong, for the compiz-check script (hacked for root access).

OK I am at 0 errors now
there was a conflict with the ati_fglrx driver/lib
This may have installed with xfce.
I un-installed it - assuming it would be in the compiz slacko SFS

Now I can run the 'xwin dummy' but the programs all appear in top left and I can not resize or move . . .
Also the compiz animation comes up - so nearly there

If I type xwin JWM I get the compiz configuation manager from the menu in desktop but only have one window and no wobble

Many thanks

Hi Lob,

See the known issues.

I do have to package up a pet for xfce, slacko comliant. You can use the one in the PPM from the Slackware repo, but the menus are not Puppy compliant. You can also try the Trinity sfs instead.

Snap of my thinkpad r51 trinity, compiz

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jpeps, I think my basic instructions in the compiz-helper are at the opposite end of the spectrum compared to one Miss NixiPixil!_________________Puppy Linux Blog - contact me for accessLast edited by 01micko on Fri 23 Dec 2011, 20:39; edited 1 time in total

For some reason the new rxvt-unicode refuses to run applications through "-e". I have no idea why. Also, it seems the Terminus font is not recognized for some reason ... and Conky behaves differently for some unknown reason. I did a first build of my puplet and it's totally messed up.

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